Comments

I am a novice. I have read several of the tutorials trying to teach myself
pearl. I found your tutorial excellent and easy to follow. It was nice to read
something that made sense to a layman.

Roy Bridgewood

9/4/2003

I dont just know the words to quantify this your website. But in summary this
is the best "CGI Bible website". I have been writing a lot in perl and have
seen many perl cook books but not CGI.
Once again thank you for you "CGI cooked website".

Victor Ature

8/27/2003

Wow... I've been taking the time to learn Perl for a job, and this resource
really helped me alot. I will definitely go out and buy the book now, since
this online resource was just amazing.

8/5/2003

Great class. Learned a lot of things that I thought would never be teachable
for free. Thanks a bunch for providing and teaching me a thing or two about
CGI!

Rob Healey

8/3/2003

Just what I needed to get me started. I've done loads of ASP and ASPX and some
Perl admin scripts, and needed a quick intro to Perl CGI. Thanks much!

7/19/2003

You guys have a great tutorial, hands down the best one I saw out on the web.
I have used Perl for awhile, but never in the context of CGI. I was off and
running in a VERY short time. Great step-by-step explinations!!

JM

4/22/2002

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! After messing around with CGI,
mailmerge and other stuff, on and off, for coming up for a year now with zero
success I saw your website yesterday. Within a few hours I worked through the
first 6 chapters and I am now GETting and POSTing with confidence. I've just
ordered your book - it is nicely written and well rehearsed.

Mike Watts

4/12/2002

Great site. Best tutorial I've ever used. I like how the tutorial covers
areas outside the subject area (like chmod) for users who are not familiar with
those commands. Thank you very much. I hope you develop other great online
material.

Noel Gomez

2/20/2002

So many cgi and perl books focus on the science of programming and can turn
away people looking for practical help. This is a great book for people
needing to create practical applications for use in business like emailing and
storing form submission info -- not logarithms etc. Plus, once you get through
cgi101, you will have more confidence, and the more technical stuff will start
to make sense.

Andrew Hughes

2/20/2002

I was struggling around with different ready-to-use cgi scripts for some years
now. Most of them covered only a part of my needs. At last I decided to write
my own scripts. cgi101 seems to cover exactly my needs: easy to learn and
really useable scipt examples. Exacly the applications that I was looking for:
form-processing with sendmail, database and simple order processing. I am
amazed how easy things can be!

Oliver Wild

12/23/2001

Within one month after purchasing your book, I have written and sold CGI
scripts that facilitate customer service in my industry. Your explanations and
instructions are far and above anything on the market today. Thank you!

-- Guy Davis

10/21/2001

Extremely clear and coincise tutorials. I referenced four different books on
CGI/PERL, to a problem that I had been agonizing over for the past three days
only to be disappointed by the unnecessarily complicated examples and
presentation of content in those books. Ten minutes into chapter 6: Reading &
Writing Data Files, of your free online material, Voilla! problem solved! I'm
able to use my CGI Script with an HTML page to obtain, group and store user
input into several .dat files. Thank you so very much, I will sleep peacefully
tonight!

-- Izzy Khan

Just wanted to let you all know that under the hood of Mac OS X, Apple's latest
OS, is BSD Unix. If you have OS X, use the Terminal (Utilities directory) to
access the unix command line and code away!

-- John Severton

Thank you Jacqueline for a book which has finally made the light bulb click in
my mind! I've been trying to learn cgi spradically over the past 2 years...
never make it past chapter 4 in the 'recommended' best how-to books. I'm now
on Chapter 8, have fully understood everything I've read and how it works, and
am looking forward to finally getting my websites up and running! I think this
book is a must for webmasters who've been boggled by the technical books.

Nice job on this tutorial. I already program in several languages, and I have
been playing with CGI for almost two years now, but never had enough of the
basics to really break in and get dirty with it. I have a need to write a large
database handling program, and going through your tutorial has really helped a
lot. It seems most other CGI resources cater to those with more advanced
knowledge of the language. Yours really breaks it down and makes it quite easy
to understand. Thanks.

-- Tim Pauly

My compliments on your MOST FANTASTIC PERL EXPLANATION I've ever seen!!! After
having studied lots of other books, I learned more from these pages than the
other entire books!

Great book,thouroughly recommended to anyone wanting to learn Perl or Cgi.
Everything is laid out really well and not written as though you are a rocket
scientist, unlike other books I tried and binned.

-- Kevin Stuttard

I am a college professor of one computer institution in the Philippines, I was
given a load about this CGI last summer and was surprised because I really dont
know how.. until I found your page. This site has helped me as well as my
students to fully understand CGI Programming. Thanks.

-- Oliver Sta. Maria

I used to think CGI programming are only for experts. After reading your book I
find thats not true. The book was written in a lucid style. I expect the
author to offer other levels of CGI programming in the near future.

-- Venkatarajan Mathura

What a great book. I landed a great client because I spent a few hours with the
online tutorial and wrote a killer forms handling script for him. I immediately
ordered the book and was even more impressed with the clarity and the depth.
Though I have taught Computer Science at the university level, I never had such
a great textbook available.

-- Ken Loomis

I would like to THANK YOU for your fantastic "CGI Programming 101" course. I
have learned more about CGI/PERL in one hour than in the past 3 months !

-- Yves Casaubon

I loved this tutorial, absolutely. The only bad part in my opinion is that the
whole thing isn't online. Guess I'll have to get the book! The introduction and
tutorial got be coding and scripting in no time. I can finally finish those
hard-to-decipher scripts I have.

-- 'Brando' Stevens

This online class is GREAT! I can learn perl step by step. Although I am a
novice, I think it is easy to understand the content. Anyway, this is an
EXCELLENT online class!

-- Siu Mei

Being a 'front-end' web designer, I have always wanted to learn the art of
programming websites using cgi/perl. However, I thought that to program in cgi
would be a very complicated task, until I came across this website. I would
like to thank the author for presenting such an EXCELLENT tutorial online, from
which we can easily learn and grasp the concepts. Keep up the Work!

-- Mili Wijeratne

That was the fastest time that I've ever learnt a set of new skils, 1.5 hours
reading on the train, 1 hour practice and then hey presto, instant scripts.
Thankyou very much, I wish all courses were as simple!

-- David Wilkins

Whoa! Finally I have found the source I have been surfing for during the last
few months! Honestly, your tutorials have proved to be my savior and thus
relieving me of this migraine I have from trying to teach myself perl/cgi. I'll
tell you what, I have just finished reading the book excerpts, tried out a few
of the ideas w/ success each time, and when I hit this "send comments" button,
I'm going straight to the 'Order the Book' page! Thanks so much. Do us all a
favor and keep up the great work!!!

-- Chris

Even though I know some perl already, there is no resource on the web that I've
found that is as helpful as yours! I'd always wondered how you read and set
cookies with perl and retrive the user's username and ip address. I'v learned
more from this simple tutorial than a 500 page textbook could teach me! When I
get stuck on how to do something, this is the first site I check. Thank you for
taking the time to make these tutorials.

-- Brandon

Out of all the sites that I have seen that are cgi perl tutorials, this is by
far the best. I would have never learned how to make my own scripts with
administration panels if it wasn't for the help of this tutorial. Thanks.

anonymous

I absolutely loved your tutorial! I learned in a day what I had been spending
months trying to figure out. It was well written and took the confusion out of
PERL. I learned more in this brief intro than I did in the 400 page book I read
about it. THANK YOU!!!

-- Logan Anderson

What a great resource! I have spent weeks of trying to use perl and CGI, with
no real success. In one evening, my head was cleared and I was programming
with SUCCESS. Thank you so much for your course.

--Peter

I was learning CGI/PERL on this website when it was only 7 (seven) chapters
long! I -according to me- aleady got the ropes of CGI. Man, I ought to admit
that this is the best tutorial on the web I've ever follow. Thanks for your
service!

--Michael Wilson

Your CGI Programming 101 is EXCELLENT!! I especially
like the immediate results and working in the UNIX shell (from my
little-'ol PC). I tried using several other tutorials, to little
avail... Thank you for taking the time to offer these lessons!

I was recently looking to learn about CGI and Perl for a client project I'm
working on and came across your pages. This format fits the bill perfectly
for me. I've done a lot of programming in other languages but I needed a
way to get up to speed quickly with CGI. The layout and examples all worked
fine for me (except I need to get my ISP to give me clear CGI execution
from the server!).

I appreciate your cgi programming class 101 very much! Of the huge long
list of web links our instructor told us to read, yours is the only one
I've found to be really useful.

Thanx for putting up your tutorial. I am a student at Cornell who needed
to get a very fast introduction to CGI scripting using Perl. Due to your
work, I now have a very nice job on campus managing a web page.

I wish to compliment you on your site and class!
I have learned more about Perl & CGI from lesson one than from
either of the books which I purchased and have puzzled over
for the last few weeks. Thank You!

I've been looking for a information on learning cgi script. I must say
that you have made the best site on this subject. You have presented it so
clearly That I will be confortable writting cgi in just a few days!! My
hat is off to you and thank you.

Your CGI Programming 101 has been a great help to me. I've programmed
for years in lots of languages but never perl and was looking for a good
place to get practical clearly written information to help me get
started. Yours was the best I found. Less than 1 day after I found your
course I am processing forms. Hope to have my guestbook up and running
in another day or two.
I just wanted to say thanks. I appreciate the hard work, the clearly
written examples, and the excellent organization that went into your
project.

I would like to THANK YOU for your fantastic resource on
CGIs, thanks to you, things are clear to me now(and some of my CGIs
actually work) I've tried a lot of scripts on the web- yours really
work, most I've found I have not gotten to run.
Your writing style is excellent and quite clear, even to a newbie
like me.

There is no language in the world that can express how we are excited of
your online CGI programming class! Searching for online resources on Perl,
we have found that your course is the best ever introduction to programming
in Perl for the Internet applications.

FINALLY!!! This is the first place I've found that can teach PERL to
me. Thanks for doing this, and keep the updates coming! On that note,
please put me on the class mailing list!

I would just like to let you know that I am SOOOO glad I came across this web
site. In just 2 hours, I already learned more about CGI and Perl than I have
since I started writing web pages.
I have searched for useful sites to help learn the basics of CGI, and have even
considered a course. But they all assume you have a bit of programming
experience. I do, but not for languages such as Perl.
I am truly thankful, and look forward to your adding more lessons.
Thank you once again.

I have learned more from your site in this 45 min sitting then in the past 3
months of flipping through books. THANK YOU!

THIS SITE IS HEAVEN ON THE WEB!!!
I sincerely appreciate the section entitled "CGI programming 101"
I have pickedup up cgi in these last few days and already I'm organizing my web
site to handle all sorts of searches on over 10000 parts.

I must say I have attacked perl and CGI before, but left bewildered. I'm a
database programmer, so it was irritating to find this so difficult.
Your class really helped me out. The CGI was needed to write is nearly
finished, and I have a much better understanding of how the language works,
and how CGIs are written.
Thanks.

I have been searching for many weeks to find a website that could explain cgi
scripting to me in a way that I could (1) use and (2) understand. After
searching and darn near giving up with pages that assumed I would just know
what things like {}, chmod, ||, and other such codes mean, I found your page.
A GREAT PAGE for the webmaster who is not a computer programmer nor a fulltime
webmaster (and a little thick when it comes to such matters). Thanks a bunch
for your help. I got through lesson four and had a cgi script ready to go to
handle a form that I created. GREAT WORK!!!!

Your web site is spectacularly fantastic. I adore the nice way you've put
things of the web. The fear for CGI scripts that I once had has vanished
completely just because I visited your site esp. the web tools section.
I appreciate your excellent work.

I'm *SO* excited! I just wrote my first .cgi script, thanks to your
excellent tutorial! I needed to direct people from a no-longer-available
.cgi page they were being sent to from a very out-of-date external link
on an apparently abandoned website. It was easy, and I'm so happy to
have been able to do it and not lose hundreds of visitors a week to my
website. THANKS! Best wishes.

I just wanted to compliment you and to say thanks for your online "CGI
Programming 101" course. It's the clearest and most useful tutorial
I've found - I got my scripts to work right away thanks to your course,
after a week of frustration with other printed and online materials.
Please continue!